Welcome to your AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification Provider: Microsoft Exam: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Exam Code: AZ-900 Total Question: 56 Updated On: 11 February 2024 1. Which cloud service model provides you with the most control over the hardware that runs applications? software as a service (SaaS) platform as a service (PaaS) infrastructure as a service (IaaS) 2. What can be applied to a resource to prevent accidental deletion? a policy an Azure Reservation a resource tag a resource lock 3. Which two scenarios are common billing use cases for resource tags? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. categorizing costs by department identifying lower cost regions associating costs with different environments resizing underutilized virtual machines 4. You need to create a custom solution that uses thresholds to trigger autoscaling functionality to scale an app up or down to meet user demand. What should you include in the solution? Azure Service Health Azure Monitor Azure Advisor Application insights 5. In which cloud service model is the customer responsible for managing the operating system? software as a service (SaaS) platform as a service (PaaS) Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) 6. [Answer choice] is the deployment and management service for Azure. Azure API Management Azure Monitor Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Microsoft Entra 7. Which type of cloud service are virtual networks? infrastructure as a service (IaaS) software as a service (SaaS) platform as a service (PaaS) 8. You need to compare the costs of running an application in an on-premises datacenter with the costs of running the application in Azure. What should you use to assist you? Azure Pricing calculator Azure Advisor Azure Cost Management Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator 9. Which two actions can be performed by using Azure portal? Create Microsoft Entra user Assign deny permission on a resource group Create new resources. Change the availability zone of a virtual machine. 10. What can you use to find information about planned maintenance for Azure services that are critical to your organization? Log Analytics Azure Monitor Azure Service Health Azure Advisor 11. You need to recommend a solution for Azure virtual machine deployments. The solution must enforce company standards on the virtual machines. What should you include in the recommendation? Azure Blueprints Azure Lock Azure Policy Azure Cost Management 12. What can you use to execute code in a serverless environment? Azure Container Instances Azure Functions Azure Logic Apps Azure Virtual Desktop 13. What should you proactively review and act on to avoid service interruptions, such as service retirements and breaking changes? service issues application insights Azure Monitor health advisories 14. Which resource can you use to manage access, policies, and compliance across multiple subscriptions? management groups administrative units resource groups resource pair 15. What can you use to connect Azure resources, such as Azure SQL databases, to an Azure virtual network? peering network security groups (NSGs) ExpressRoute service endpoints 16. Which two characteristics are common advantages of cloud computing? elimination of horizontal scaling physical access to servers geo-distribution high availability 17. Increasing compute capacity for an app by adding instances of resources such as virtual machines is called [answer choice]. horizontal scaling high availability disaster recovery vertical scaling 18. Which feature in the Microsoft Purview governance portal should you use to manage access to data sources and datasets? Data Sharing Data Catalog Data Policy Data Estate Insights 19. Which two attributes are characteristics of the private cloud deployment model? Applications can be provisioned and deprovisioned quickly. The company has complete control over physical resources and security. Organizations only pay for what they use. Hardware must be purchased. 20. What can you apply to an Azure virtual machine to ensure that users cannot change or delete the resource? Conditional Access a user-assigned managed identity a lock a tag 21. For which resource does Azure generate separate billing reports and invoices by default? resource groups accounts management groups subscriptions 22. Which two actions can be performed by using the graphical user interface (GUI) in the Azure portal? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Repeatedly set up one or more resources and ensure that all the dependencies are created in the proper order. Change the availability zone of a virtual machine. Review a graphical view of all the services you are using. Create new resources. 23. What can you use to define the resources you want to provision in a declarative JSON format? Azure Repos Azure PowerShell Azure CLI Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates 24. Which Azure resource is a software emulation of a physical computer that includes a virtual processor, memory, storage, and networking resources? a function a container a virtual machine an App Service 25. What can you use to ensure that users authenticate by using multi-factor authentication (MFA) when they attempt to sign in from a specific location? Azure role-based access control (RBAC) Conditional Access administrative units single sign-on (SSO) 26. You need to be notified when there are new recommendations for reducing Azure costs. Which tool should you use? Log Analytics Azure Service Health Azure Monitor Azure Advisor 27. Which two tools can you use to create a new Azure virtual machine from a mobile device that runs Android? PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell SSH the Azure portal Remote Desktop 28. What can you use to allow a user to manage all the resources in a resource group? Azure Key Vault resource locks Azure role-based access control (RBAC) resource tags 29. What Microsoft Entra feature can you use to configure security authentication that requires users to use their mobile phone to sign in? Microsoft Defender for Cloud Azure Information Protection (AIP) multi-factor authentication (MFA) Microsoft Entra Verified ID 30. Which Azure Blob storage service tier has the highest storage costs and the fastest access times for reading and writing data? Hot Archive Cool 31. What can you use to create resources in Azure and includes a validation step to ensure all resources are created in a specific order based on dependencies, in parallel and idempotent? Azure PowerShell Azure REST API Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates Azure CLI 32. What provides recommendations to reduce the cost of Azure resources? Microsoft Defender for Cloud Azure Service Health Azure Advisor Azure Dashboard 33. What is the customer responsible for in a software as a service (SaaS) model? data and access virtual machines runtime storage 34. Your organization is building a custom application. You need to focus on application development rather than configuration and management of servers. Which cloud service model should you use? infrastructure as a service (IaaS) software as a service (SaaS) platform as a service (PaaS) 35. Which two Azure resources can make use of availability zones? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. virtual machines Azure subscriptions Azure SQL databases resource groups 36. Which two services can you use to establish network connectivity between an on-premises network and Azure resources? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Azure Firewall Azure Bastion Azure VPN Gateway ExpressRoute 37. Your organization plans to deploy several production virtual machines that will have consistent resource usage throughout the year. What can you use to minimize the costs of the virtual machines without reducing the functionality of the virtual machines? Azure Monitor alerts Azure Resources spending limits Azure Reservations 38. What can you use to ensure that a development team can only create virtual machines of a certain size? Azure Blueprints Conditional Access Azure Policy Cloud Adoption Framework 39. Which two components are created in an Azure subscription? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. resources management groups resource groups Microsoft Entra user accounts 40. Which two factors affect Azure costs? date and time of use resource location availability zone selection resource usage 41. Which two features are available by using Azure Cost Management + Billing? Create and manage budgets. Estimate the total cost of ownership before resources are deployed. Generate historical reports and forecast future usage. Provide discounted prices when you pay in advance. 42. Which storage service should you use to store thousands of files containing text and images? Azure Blob storage Azure Queue Storage Azure Table storage Azure Disk Storage 43. What can you use to sync identities from an on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain to Microsoft Entra tenant? Conditional Access Azure Key Vault Microsoft Entra Connect Azure Resource Manager (ARM) 44. What are two basic services provided by all cloud providers? storage colocation application development compute 45. [Answer choice] is the logical container used to combine and organize Azure resources. a management group an Azure region a resource group Azure Resource Manager (ARM) 46. Which type of cloud service model is typically licensed through a monthly or annual subscription? Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) software as a service (SaaS) platform as a service (PaaS) 47. Deploying and configuring cloud-based resources quickly as business requirements change is called [answer choice]. agility scalability elasticity high availability 48. Why is cloud computing often less expensive than on-premises datacenters? Network bandwidth is free. You are only billed for what you use. Services are only offered in a single geographic location. Cloud service offerings have limited functionality. 49. You have an Azure virtual machine that is accessed only between 9:00 and 17:00 each day. What should you do to minimize costs but preserve the associated hard disks and data? Delete the virtual machine. Resize the virtual machine. Implement Privileged Identity Management. Deallocate the virtual machine. 50. What can you use to restrict the deployment of a virtual machine to a specific location? Microsoft Defender for Cloud resource locks resource groups Azure Policy 51. What can you use to provide Mac and Android users with access to a Windows environment that will run Windows-based applications? Azure Functions Azure Container Instances Azure Logic Apps Azure Virtual Desktop 52. You need to associate the costs of resources to different groups within an organization without changing the location of the resources. What should you use? resource tags administrative units subscriptions resource groups 53. Which two protocols can be used to access Azure file shares? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Network File System (NFS) HTTP Server Message Block (SMB) FTP 54. Which cloud service model is used by Microsoft Office 365? infrastructure as a service (IaaS) software as a service (SaaS) platform as a service (PaaS) 55. Which Azure component allows you to replicate resources across a geography to ensure business continuity during a natural disaster at the primary site? region pairs Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets availability zones availability sets 56. An example of [answer choice] is automatically scaling an application to ensure that the application has the resources needed to meet customer demands. agility elasticity geo-distribution high availability Time's up